The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
Enter a world of grandeur and glory, kings and kingdoms. With romance, betrayal and revenge, this is history that reads like fiction.
Winner of the Plutarch Award
Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize
From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary historical biography of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.
As King James I’s favorite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, advisor and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his b...







